To: milesofstyles who wrote (16295 ) 9/16/2001 11:14:36 AM From: milesofstyles Respond to of 208838 seems the hypocrisy is coming about as investigations into bin laden's shorting activites take place in japan and germany. boy, it'd be nice to see this guy short squeezed. the thread over the past couple of days has been going thru the described transition of mourning to outright anger. as previous posts have indicated, apparently the radical side of islam is only about 10pct. thus, i would tend to agree we have to minimize how many innocents, if possible become casualties of our efforts. i don't think we want the "kill'm all" mentality and drag the rest of the islam world into this, against us. bush has declared a "war on terrorism". can this be a valid directive? can it be seperated? perhaps. bin laden's terrorist factions have often been referred to as a network. this has certain implications. in our quest to seek out bin laden, it would seem our goal would also need to include the acquisition of information.in consideration as to the size of bin laden's group, there has to be some evidence of logs, databases, etc, as to where these "cells" are. the acquisition of such databases would be a gold mine. if we consider that most cells are unaware of other cells, this could be their biggest downfall. if thru this database we did learn of the location of where all existing cells are, we can tactfully, perhaps thru the use of special forces units move in one at a time on each cell. by strategically taking out one cell at a time, knowing that other cells are unaware of each other, we could keep them from relocating as we continually dismantled the entire operation. realistic, unrealistic, i dunno milesov